It seams that it needs some kind of a host name in the URL.
from the page- section 2.1
The search request is a URL that combines:
* Your Google Search Appliance host name or IP address, which were assigned when the appliance was set up
I don't have any kind of appliance host name. what I am looking for is something like the old google SOAP api.
> I don't have any kind of appliance host name. what I
> am looking for is something like the old google SOAP api.
Aha. My choice of search keywords from that was "google soap api". And the first link that came back was this one:
http://code.google.com/
And in it there is this sentence:
"On December 5th, we stopped accepting new sign-ups for the Google SOAP Search API."
You could read more in that page if you liked.